MRI scans of the abdomen were performed to measure the volume of the subcutaneous fat - the fat under skin - and visceral fat ...

By using state-of-the-art MRI technology, researchers were able to precisely measure changes in both absolute visceral fat and its proportion relative to total abdominal fat, providing insights ...

Visceral fat is stored near your internal organs, around your waistline. Visceral fat increases your risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and stroke. To get rid of visceral fat ...

So what causes the buildup of this visceral fat? Some of it may be due to genetics: in fact, a study identified three genes that are related to waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), a measure that indicates ...

Visceral fat is one of those health terms you might have heard but not fully understood. It refers to the fat stored deep within your abdominal cavity, surrounding essential organs like the liver ...

Unlike visceral fat, which surrounds internal organs ... involved approximately 600 participants and used advanced MRI technology to examine how intra-abdominal fat relates to metabolic health.

Menopause is associated with a decline in estrogen, which increases visceral fat mass and decreases bone density ... such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The problem is that these tests are ...